Directory of Finnegans Wake
Reading Groups
A list of local groups meeting in actual or virtual space, with some in both.
Leaders or members of groups
are welcome to send information or update your listing here: [email protected].

We're grateful for a recent updating by
Peter Coogan of the Venice, California group.

Outside USA

Australia
Melbourne

Ireland
Dublin

Sweden
Malmö

Switzerland
Zurich

UK
London

Ukraine
Kyiv

Athens, Georgia
Group forming that meets weekly or so.
Contact
Alva P.
[email protected]

Berkeley, California
The Berkeley Tuesday Night Finnegans Wake Group
Meeting weekly for many years.
Online at www.berkeleywakegroup.org.

Boston, Massachusetts 1/2
Every Tuesday
at The Red House, 98 Winthrop Street, Cambridge
at 7 p.m.
Contact
Cahal Stephens
[email protected]

Boston, Massachusetts 2/2
We meet monthly at the Abigail Adams Tea Room.
Contact
[email protected]
Our meeting site:
https://www.meetup.com/tr-TR/bostonliterature/

Dublin, Ireland
Weekly on Tuesdays in the academic year
from 7:30 to 9:00 pm in the
James Joyce Cultural Centre
North Great George's Street
Dublin 1
All are welcome to drop in.
Contact
Robert Nicholson
[email protected]

Kyiv, Ukraine
"Wake in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Reading Journey 
with ongoing communication in a Telegram chat and Zoom meet-ups once every two weeks on Friday at 8.p.m. Kyiv time. (EET/EEST)
We are Ukrainians currently living in Ukraine, Europe and the USA and are very open to offline meetings with fellow Joyceans.
We discuss 2-3 pages per meeting in Ukrainian or in English if a foreign guest is present. Feel free to join us in our journey.
Contact
Alexander Logvinenko
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/alexander.logvinenko88

Linda:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012523148419

London, England/UK
Meets at the Institute of English Studies, 
last Friday of every month, 6-8 pm. 
Contact
Finn Fordham
[email protected]

Malmö, Sweden
Sundays at 13.00 every odd week
at Slöjdgatan 4a
Contact
Kristoffer Sjöström
[email protected]
Phone: +46763280410

Melbourne, Australia
We're part of Bloomsday in Melbourne and we meet, currently by Zoom, from 2:30pm-5:00pm AEST on the third Saturday of each month. We take our time, and may manage a page or a page and a half. We have a Facebook page,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MFWRG,
but the best way to sign up is via our website,
https://www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au/finnegans-wake. 
Contact: Steve Carey
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0423 793887

Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Finnegans Wake Reading Group - Mineral PointMeeting times and places vary. When a meeting is set (some meetings will include zoom), it will appear on the  reading group website, which can be subscribed to:
http://finneganswakempwi.blogspot.com
Contact:
Joel Gosse
[email protected]

New York City
The Wake Watchers of 
The Finnegans Wake Society of New York
Meeting semi-monthly online since the pandemic on usually the second and fourth Wednsdays, 7-- 9 pm.
You are reading this on our web site
http://www.finneganswake.org
where our monthly meeting schedule is posted on the index page. All are welcome to join the group at any time.
Contact:
[email protected]

Santa Fe, New Mexico
JoyceGroup Santa Fe
Founded 1998 by the late Elaine Mingus
Weekly meetings held Saturday mornings from 10:00-12:30 at the Santa Fe Public Library
Wakeean actor/blogger Adam Harvey (“JoyceGeek") leads discussion, which focuses the first hour on a non-Wake Joyce book (presently Ulysses), and the second hour on Finnegans Wake. All are welcome, beginners and veterans alike. More info:
www.joycegeek.com/groupread/


Seattle/Tacoma, Washington
Allforabit Funferall
Second Sunday of every month in University Place
We've been meeting since November 2005, and read just a few pages a month. Our emphasis is on extracting all the heady goodness we can from the Wake while having fun doing it. Bring your laptop -- Fweet, Google, and Wikipedia are your friends. So-called "fanciful" interpretations are welcome!
Contact
Ron Hale-Evans
[email protected]

Venice, California
Marshall McLuhan/Finnegans Wake Reading Club
Meets online the first Tuesday of each month to read and discuss one page of Finnegans Wake in the light of McLuhan's work.
Contact
Gerry Fialka
[email protected]
website: www.LaughTears.com/McLuhanWake.html

Washington, D.C.
We meet the 1st and 3rd Mondays (+ 5th Mondays, which come around surprisingly often!) of every month. Locations change from meeting to meeting but are always on Capitol Hill, always at a drinking/eating establishment.
We read 2-3 pages per meeting.
 Contact
Mary Flannery
[email protected]
or look for us on Facebook.

Zurich, Switzerland
 two continuing groups
1) Thursday evenings, 7 - 8.30
2) Thursday afternoon 4.30 - 6
 Contact
Fritz Senn
Zurich James Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefoundation.ch
Augustinergasse 9
CH-8001 Zurich Switzerland
Phone: ++41 1 211 83 01 Fax ++41 1 212 51 [email protected]

2023-11